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A man begs for money in Sydney's central business district as Australia's unemployment rate jumped to a more-than 12-year high of 6.4 percent in January, official data showed on February 12, 2015, providing further ammunition for the central bank to cut interest rates. Economists had been expecting a rise to 6.2 percent from December's 6.1 percent but with the number of people employed falling by 12,200 it was worse-than-expected, at a level not seen since August 2002. AFP PHOTO/William WESTWILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images